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Post your comments for Apple's iOS edges Android in US during holidays, study says here

[Jeffsters]

I think now that Samsung is being FORCED to provide REAL sales figures as part of its court battle with Apple there's going to be some rethinking. I have followed this whole marketshare thing for awhile. TOTALLY unscientific but I travel a great deal for work. Million miles on American for example and I ever since Samsung and others refuse to provide sales but only shipments and something they call activations. I've really looked at what people around me use. Be it the airport, the coffee shop, the local bars, and without a doubt the iPhone is the #1 handset bar none. Try it yourself!

[Sweendog30]

I dare say, your wrong. The information above is for the US only. Not Canada, Not Brittan, not even China. USA.

This tells me something. Since the rest of the world sees Android as the #1 CLEAR choice for all mobile operating systems, it just shows how much struggle there is for Apple to catch up. They are a passing fad. Steve Jobs isn't around to invent anything worth while.

Just give it time.

[MoopMeep]

I've read that 3/4 of the phones shipped in 3rd qtr of 2012 were android, but that wasn't in the USA. That was world wide. Not everybody in the world has the $$$ to blow $650 on a phone that should cost $500. Or maybe they are not stupid enough. Of course the real price is hidden in the US due to carrier subsidies.

Apple has done a fantastic job of manipulating the US cell phone carriers, but it's not so easy in other parts of the world especially where phones are not subsidized.

[ViewRoyal]

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I dare say, your wrong. The information above is for the US only. Not Canada, Not Brittan, not even China. USA. This tells me something. Since the rest of the world sees Android as the #1 CLEAR choice for all mobile operating systems, it just shows how much struggle there is for Apple to catch up. They are a passing fad. Steve Jobs isn't around to invent anything worth while. Just give it time.

I can speak for Canada, or at least my part of it ;-) and can tell you that most people you see here have an iPhone, and pretty well every tablet you see (other than eReaders) is an iMac.

As for many other countries, the iPhone is catching up and is expected to surpass Android phones.

The reason for this is simple. For the past few years when Android smartphones began to be sold, they were available for sale from every service in every country world-wide.

On the other hand, the iPhone is slowly being rolled out to different countries and the services within those countries. In many countries and on many services, you just can't buy an iPhone... yet, so the primary choice in places and services where iPhones are NOT sold, has been Android.

Even in the USA, the iPhone is not available on all services yet, but it has still reached 53.3% (and growing).

China is an excellent example of how iPhone availability is changing. China Mobile, the largest service with over a Billion subscribers, does not sell the iPhone (but a deal with Apple is expected in the few months).

Over the past couple of years, China Mobile has lost millions of customers to the other two smaller services which DO carry the iPhone. Once China Mobile starts selling the iPhone, we can expect a huge increase in the sales of iPhones in China.

[TechConc]

Sweendog30, on 07 January 2013 - 08:47 AM, said:

I dare say, your wrong. The information above is for the US only. Not Canada, Not Brittan, not even China. USA.

This tells me something. Since the rest of the world sees Android as the #1 CLEAR choice for all mobile operating systems, it just shows how much struggle there is for Apple to catch up. They are a passing fad. Steve Jobs isn't around to invent anything worth while.

Just give it time.

I'd say Apple's showing has been impressive, given that they're not even selling phones on T-Mobile, one of the top 4 providers. That said, the interesting thing about the US market is the phone subsidy business. In short, when the price of the phone is the same (due to carrier subsidy), people prefer Apple's phones. When price becomes the deciding factor, people are cheaper and go with the price differentiation.

[jbraum]

I find that when it comes to choice people I know, know little or nothing about Android phones. They now about iPhones because of the amount of advertising Apple does. Personally I've used the IPhone, Blackberry and Android and prefer the Andriod hands down.

[firefight16]

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I dare say, your wrong. The information above is for the US only. Not Canada, Not Brittan, not even China. USA. This tells me something. Since the rest of the world sees Android as the #1 CLEAR choice for all mobile operating systems, it just shows how much struggle there is for Apple to catch up. They are a passing fad. Steve Jobs isn't around to invent anything worth while. Just give it time. I can speak for Canada, or at least my part of it ;-) and can tell you that most people you see here have an iPhone, and pretty well every tablet you see (other than eReaders) is an iMac. As for many other countries, the iPhone is catching up and is expected to surpass Android phones. The reason for this is simple. For the past few years when Android smartphones began to be sold, they were available for sale from every service in every country world-wide. On the other hand, the iPhone is slowly being rolled out to different countries and the services within those countries. In many countries and on many services, you just can't buy an iPhone... yet, so the primary choice in places and services where iPhones are NOT sold, has been Android. Even in the USA, the iPhone is not available on all services yet, but it has still reached 53.3% (and growing). China is an excellent example of how iPhone availability is changing. China Mobile, the largest service with over a Billion subscribers, does not sell the iPhone (but a deal with Apple is expected in the few months). Over the past couple of years, China Mobile has lost millions of customers to the other two smaller services which DO carry the iPhone. Once China Mobile starts selling the iPhone, we can expect a huge increase in the sales of iPhones in China.

[firefight16]

I work in a control room with about 40 staff all own smart phones, and Apple is only owned by 6 people, the rest all own an Android device, in fact most new purchases have been Android, so sorry your wrong most Canadians don't own a Apple. Also in computers only two of those own a Mac, the other 38 own a windows PC

[SkyJedi]

What you see is what you own. You also live your life with similar people making similar decisions. Personal experience is worthless. Hard sale numbers are are still fact, which never get released by anyone. General numbers and awful surveys (COMscore, Nielsen, NPD, Flurry, Pew) are all the tech world has to go on. In the end it doesn't matter, to each his own. Its not sports team. Grow up and play nice.